i don't like the bride looking like betty crocker offering the cake to the camera

no offense to the bride the baker or betty herself--but that is off putting to me

i don't want her serving the cake--that dress is not a 'cake cutter' outfit

she needs to go dancing into the moonlight and leave the cake to her minions

doncha think?

AHAHAHAHAHAHA I am soooo glad you said this! I totally got side tracked with the photo too. I started wondering if it wasn't airbrushed because the cake looks pretty substantial and she appears to be holding it quite a distance from her body that I was thinking "she's not strong enough to hold the cake like that....FAKE!"

I agree. That kind of fat lace technique has appeared on a number of cakes that i've seen, lately. I'm not sure if I like it or not. On the upside, fat piping is easier to do than thin strings. At least for me, anyway, so it will be easier to pipe if you choose to do it that way. The hard part will come when you're trying to paint it all with silver lustre and not get it on the cake.

I just did a cake like this (i tried and tried to get the bride to consider another lace design, but she had Her. Heart. Set. on something very similar).

Mine was a bit bigger, 10" base cake that was 10" high (yeah...no WAY a cake of size could be held that way!). I hand rolled the larger parts of the lace and used an extruder for the smaller parts. The fine piping (strings and pearls on the stems) was done in a light grey royal. I hand painted the larger lace with silver luster and touched up the royal. The fondant got a good buffing with super pearl as well as the lace and the string work. I did some impressions on the larger swirls for some depth.

I just did a cake from this photo! (I tried so very, very hard to get the bride to vary from the design, but she Had. Her. Heart. Set. on this design. It's lovely, but i try to do something unique for each customer.)

Mine was a 10" double barrel so it was 10" high with a 6" top. Yeah, no way a bride could hold out a cake in her arms like that!

I hand rolled and used an extruder for the lace and used grey royal for the string work and pearls. I hand painted the fondant and did a bit of touch up on the royal.